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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Passion





Hi hi hello!

In my last post, I slightly told you something I've been working on. As I posted, I decided to try out oil paints and so this is a post of the process:)


When I started off with this, I thought I wanted to keep the simplicity of a human face, express it as briefly as possible. I thought I'd keep this in mind for possible next project(s) but now go a little crazier with experimenting with the oil paints. I also did not want to now create anything as bare as this would have been.


I went on to defining the edges of the details. This phase reminds me somehow of a woman being one with the nature...Like, I could imagine this face appearing at the side of a tree or something... ahh the surrealism.


The "Mature" look of the figure dissapeared at this phase, when I drew the edges and "separated" the figure from the canvas. It was like the figure was given identity, in a strange way.


At this point the shading process started, and it's a shame the process photos that I took were extremely bad quality due to the dirty camera lens I had in my phone and oddly did not notice until it was too late (drum roll.)


The shading of the figure at this point is starting to be pretty clear. I spontaneously decided to ''blend'' the face to the background. It may seem planned since I left gaps at the sketching part to those areas, but trust me, it was unintentional. See the background, and how the colors slide smoothly? It's the oil paints:) 


Here's an almost finished version of the painting, which I then left drying for about two weeks so I could get rid of the blacks in unwanted areas!!! You can't see it properly in the photo, but the black shading took way too much attention from all the other areas so I had to do something about it.. 

When passion meets a substance, oil on canvas

The final version..! Yee! I finished it today and the feelings are indeed joyful. 
Many surrealist painters have no idea what they are actually doing while in the process, which really opens up doors for the unconscious processes to be captured. 

This painting may be seen very differently for different people.  I named it "When passion meets a substance", because while I was making this painting, I felt like if the abstract word "passion" was to be given an identity by looks, this is how I would see it. What is the exact definition for passion? This is what Urban Dictionary gave me:

Passion is when you put more energy into something than is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm or excitement, passion is ambition that is materialized into action to put as much heart, mind body and soul into something as is possible.


In my opinion, that pretty much covers it. 


The colors of the face being connected to the background, can be seen as the figure being dissolved/faded to the background, or it being formed from the colors of the background. It's very much open to interpretation, but to me it seems like passion is formed from the substance and has found it's identity, and continues dwelling in it's original form fading in and out, like passion would have been given a personification. The non expressive face and simplistic, almost cubistic features of the figure distances the viewer from him. That makes me think if the presenter in the picture even himself believes in the ''product he sells''. Or if passion is overrated? Ah just speculating.






 Then jumping to a completely different thing - I drew my mom. In this picture the image is not completed because I started drawing on top of it with a pen that smudges when water is added - like a water color pen, sort of, and so there was too much water in a certain area when I added more color from the pen and ta-daa it got too dark, and while trying to fix it the paper ripped and lala-di-daa - ruined. :)

We shall conclude this blog post at these thoughts...







Peace !

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